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Title: The Uncut Society – an unconference event and workshopLocation: MadLab (Upstairs)Description: An ‘unconference’ and workshop for artists, activists, community leaders, NGO project workers, trade unions, young people, elders, and media workers. We aim to explore a range of imaginative new media, creative, cultural and artistic means of mounting more effective and non-violent oppositional tactics in the public sphere.Start Time: 10:00Date: 2011-03-05End Time: 16:00

Creating a united front and formulating a more coherent public critique of the Coalition Government’s regime of cuts and the drastic consequences that these are now having for civil society, the health service, education, the arts, communities and the environment. In collaboration with Arts Against the Cuts.

And about building support in the North for the main TUC march in London on the 26th of March

What is an Unconference?

An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term “unconference” has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization.

Speakers

We have a wide range of speakers coming, but the aims of the day is to build dialogue and relationships. Everyone is welcome.

Anna Burton TUC Organiser, London

David Berridge Artist/activist

AIR collective:

Pippa Koszerek

Helen Dearnley – from Lincolnshire

Myself – from London

Jack Hutchinson – from Oxford

Sally Lemsford – from Derbyshire

Arts Against the Cuts: Louis Hartnoll President LMU Art Students Union Students’ Union